Air India

✅ Trip Verified | Terrible. Not recommended. From Male to Bangalore is 2 hours flight. We left hotel at 8:30 am for 10:55 flight. We were told flight is delayed by 1 hour at check in counter. After 1 hour we were told 3 hours delay. Then after that 1 more hour delay. At 3 PM. We were told our flight is cancelled and aircraft never even left Delhi. After hustle we we provided with very nice SriLanka Air flight leaving Male at 8:45 PM! But that time we already spent 12 hours in airport. With one stop we reached Bangalore at 3:30 AM! That made 18 hours trip from Male to Bangalore, instead of 2. Others passengers told us flights are cancelled regularly. They are very often late. My husband missed his connection flight to Toronto via Frankfurt and was made to pay for that flight. Unbelievable! Never fly Air India.

✅ Trip Verified | San Francisco to Bangalore via Delhi. They're not able to answer simple questions, are blatantly rude and speak poor English. We fly to India a couple times a year and my husband and I decided to give Air India a try. We will never fly this airline again. My husband got sick during our trip and was hospitalized. We needed to change our return flight due to this ordeal, and Air India was a horror to deal with in the midst of this terrible experience. Most international airlines waive Date Change fees when health emergencies are concerned - but Air India charges the max of $300, and ripped us off for the fare difference as well, although we were changing our flight from a peak week to a much less busy travel week. Half their customer service agents over the phone were incompetent and very rude. As for the flights themselves, the aircraft are old, entertainment system keeps breaking down, and the flight attendants were ok, but they do not respond to the call buttons.

✅ Trip Verified | Male to Trivandrum. Terrible experience with entire booking process and customer service from the airline. We were given wrong information by your staff and we were denied boarding for our flight because apparently there was no transfer desk at our transit airport! It cost us our return ticket, unnecessary stress at the airport, and an extra USD $2000 for alternative and last minute flights to make it back home on time for urgent business. Upon returning home, we made several attempts to reach authorized management to address our case - the responses were slow (if any) and unprofessional with no attention to our case. We received standard replies and it has been almost a month now since we have received any updates about our complaint.

Not Verified | Bangkok to Birmingham via Delhi. Airline staff surly and unfriendly. Not helpful. Most staff didn't even say 'hello' or 'goodbye' when entering/exiting the plane. Food - Average. Hot meal was ok but the snack was a horrible cheese sandwich! In-flight entertainment - movie selection was not great. Equipment was old and on my return flight the headphone socket didn't work so I had no sound for 9 hours! Transfer - only had 1 hour on the outward journey which meant a frantic rush to transfer - Delhi airport is rather old and the staff are slow. Leg room - pretty good. Cleanliness - bad. On the return flight we flew from Birmingham (UK) to Delhi via Amritsar. We had to wait on the plane for an hour as they got the plane ready for new passengers. The standard of cleaning was terrible. You could tell that the head rest covers were old and dirty and the carpet on the floor looked filthy too. If you have other airlines to choose from, use them instead.

✅ Trip Verified | Hyderabad to Washington via Delhi. First and last experience. Without going into details, this was by far the worst customer service in an airlines Ive experienced. The air hostesses sit around in the back chit chatting and on their phones and don't provide service beyond the basic meals. Call buttons are mostly ignored, bathrooms are never cleaned/maintained, several tv screens/remotes were not working, no seat belts for infants, and they could care less. Pathetic is too kind of a word for the service we experienced on our plane. Will never fly Air India again.

✅ Trip Verified | Delhi to San Francisco. This was my first time in AI business class, I was traveling at very short notice due to a family medical emergency and AI had the cheapest fare $3400 RT. My collection of experiences reaffirms why this airline which had its heyday in the 70s and 80s is now the laughing stock of the airline industry. The staff's attitude is unmotivated and their approach lacks professionalism - they kept trying to take away my food and drink when i clearly hadn't finished, and otherwise wouldn't clear items when i had finished for a while. The chief purser only stayed in the 1st class section and never came out once to introduce himself or spend any time in the biz class section. The tray table hinge was broken (both ways of the roundtrip) which meant it was pressing against my thigh and couldn't be moved front/back. And the seat controls are atrociously bad - its hard to figure out which way its actually moving and the grating jerky movements make for a poor customer experience. The meals served was mostly lukewarm or cold and the staff didn't seem to care. If this is the experience in business class, i really dread to think what the economy class must be like. Clearly the airline strategy is to compete on price, not quality of service. And the final straw is that i got an email today asking for feedback - when i provided it and try to submit i got a response (please note the spellings) "Server Error Please Try Later Sorry for Inconvinence casued to you. Team Air-India". This is an unbelievably poor airline that is being badly managed and run for years. It will be a miracle if they ever find a buyer, probably best to cut off the oxygen, liquidate it and not burden Indian taxpayers any more

✅ Trip Verified | Stockholm to Bangkok via Delhi. The interior looked rather deteriorated and service was shoddy. The tv was held together with masking tape, and you gotta hold it up yourself! The remote control had no buttons, basically useless, the touch screen was barely working and the remote was dirty. The chair was rough and it snagged my stocking. For each leg of my trip I had to call crew assistance once, and none came until the food was served. Only spicy food was available. Barely any crew service on the 7-hour flight, but on the 3-hour flight they offered refreshments occasionally. I got allergic contact dermatitis on my hands from the soap in the bathroom and I've only had an incident once before, from paint, so there is something very strong in their soap... so I couldn't wash my hands in flight (bags were transferred by the airline so didn't have the chance to get my own soap for the 2nd leg of the flight). Luckily, they had medicine but of course I had to go to their area for help and endure my burning hands, the crew were talking to each other that I had to say "excuse me", it almost felt like I was bothering them. They looked at my hands (there were no visible sores, it was just a bit red but it hurt so much) and they took their time. The 2nd leg of the flight was delayed for 1.5 hours, no proper notification and in possibly the worst airport ever. I want to sound impartial but there are really no better words. This is the first time I've flown with them and I can't recommend. I've traveled on LCC many times and not one experience was as unfortunate as this. For the price - there are surely better options.

✅ Trip Verified | Delhi to New York. Worst airline ever. We had to make an emergency landing at another airport and through incompetence and negligence waited 4 hours at another airport without food or water. Their mistakes made everyone miss their connecting flights which they refused to hold even though it affected hundreds of passengers. We waited over three hours at New Delhi airport just to get new boarding passes for flights 24 hours later. All because they refused to pay another airline. No food or water for another 4 hours before forcing us to share airport hotel rooms with complete strangers. They refused to tell us what was going on which created chaos and much longer waits for everything. I now have to spend at least another additional 30 hours of traveling just to get home. Do not fly this airline!! It is not safe and you are treated like garbage with no customer service whatsoever.

✅ Trip Verified | Chicago to Hyderabad via Delhi. Government run airline that does not care about quality. Poor seats that are sunk down. Entertainment system touch screen is least responsive. Audio quality is poor. Head phones provided are inadequate to enjoy the video. Toilet papers in bathroom are not sufficiently stocked. On the positive side, staff tries to help

✅ Trip Verified | Delhi to Dammam. We were charged for an upgrade and then pushed to fly in Economy class. After long followup local Office in Saudi Paid the fair Difference after almost one year. Last August was flying with Family from same airport to Dammam and the Air India Staff delayed to me on counter for unnecessary reasons for almost 90 minutes. there was extra security due to 15th august and I Was then offloaded form the flight because of delay. I came on the counter before 3 and half hour from the flight time. The staff took 10 hours to evacuate me from the immigration and bring my baggage and then misbehaved. I was forced to pay around 73000 INR to book next day flight. Next day the flight was full economy and and i was forced to travel in Economy even after I was charged with a business class fair. When i wrote an email to concerned department they answered me an annoying reply and blaming to stuck on the immigration and missed the flight by myself, which was a lie which i could not digest since it did not took more than 10 minutes on immigration for all my family to get through. I wish I will never travel on this airline ever in future.